Wednesday, December 14, 2016

DEADPOOL BACK IN BLACK #4

Deadpool Back in Black #4

Published December 7, 2016 by
Marvel Comics. Written by Cullen Bunn and drawn by Salvador Espin.

Who likes a hearty helping of
berries and nuts? Wade keeps masquerading around New York as the black suited
Spiderman and yet again attracts another of the webslinger’s foes. A violent
and repulsive encounter with Kraven the Hunter starts the action off in this
issue but the Klyntar saves the Merc and his foul mouth yet again. More
fighting and some poison darts get the better of the two and begin a strange hallucinogenic
trip through a mix of Wilson’s memories and the symbiote’s when it was with
Spiderman.

Trippin’ on whatever Kraven puts
in those darts Deadpool finds himself in the lion’s den at the zoo. And he isn’t
greeted too warmly by his feline hosts. Ironically it’s the hunter who saves
their hide this time. But the symbiote begins to show a darker and more twisted
side of itself and fends off Kraven.

While sleeping off the last of
the drugs in the poison darts and collecting bird droppings all over himself
and his friendly suit the merc is once again being hunted by Killer Thrill but someone
else has caught the assassin’s attention. And it all concludes in the next
exciting issue!

Kraven the Hunter has always been
a prideful character and while these Deadpool issues are a great parody of some
of Marvel’s best villain the fun doesn’t stop just because the hunter shows up.
The best part is probably the lion wrestling Kraven does and the fact that he
gets the idea to change his M.O. to hunt Spiderman from the torqued alien suit
that Spiderman bailed on is pretty comical. But the cliffhanger in this issue
is great too as the final issue should be a McFarlanesque epic meeting and
Parker must be a magnet for *redheads? We’ll see how this all plays out next
issue.

*Mary Jane Watson is probably
every 12 year old boy’s first choice for an ice cream social… – Joltn’ Jer